Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has been released from a federal prison 13 months after he began his sentence.
Hastert has been transferred to a residential re-entry management facility in Chicago, Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) records show.
The sentence last year involved Hastert pleading guilty to breaking banking laws. The bank fraud crimes were linked to his hush money payments. Those payments were used to silence a male student he sexually abused as a high school teacher and coach decades ago.
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert leaves the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in a wheelchair after his sentencing on April 27, 2016, in Chicago, Illinois. Photo by Joshua Lott/Getty Images
